Can you please ask students to be quiet?
I am frustrated by other law students who come into the law library talking loudly and disrupting those of us who are trying to study. Can you please ask them to speak quietly?
Answer
We can't really control the volume of your fellow law students. And while we could post signs, they tend to get ignored.
As a reminder to everyone--most areas of the Law Library are intended to be quiet. Only the Reference Area and Student Lounge on L1 and the RSO Commons/study rooms are intended to be collaborative spaces where folks can attend class virtually, meet with others, and take phone calls. Please respect your fellow studiers and keep your voice and computer sounds to a minimum in all open spaces in the Law Library.
Other options:
- Head over to the Info Desk and ask for some free earplugs
- Check out some headphones at the Equipment location
- Respectfully ask the other student to move to a collaborative space
- Move yourself to a quieter library area--there are a couple of single-user study rooms in the RSO Commons with closing doors ("L2 Collaborative Commons Individual Study Rooms"). The L1 carrels back in the Classified Stacks near call number A tend to be well-insulated from sound. And the L2 carrels along the back wall are also typically very quiet.
- If it's really bad, chat with a librarian on duty and we will send out a staff member to talk to the person